You Are Hard

You are hard, you are brash, Your swagger is flash, And when we touch base, your talk turns to cash. You are loud, especially in a crowd, But when your rowdy anger flies Your friends are suitably cowed. You are strong, but weak as well, When someone's wrong you give them hell, But when they're right you're even worse - oh, how we love to hear you curse! Hopes and hearts you broke before lie littered by each bedroom door, In their love-lost legions, they nurse their dark sweet lesions. You of ice, then of wild fire, A self-confessed accomplished liar. Yet still we dance attendance full, on you - our heart's desire! You will not leave a friend without, But on that friend will scream and shout. No stauncher ally can be found, But to your life we must be bound. Tough as diamond, soft as silk, No deeper well of kindness' milk. On we who dwell within your walls, No shadow of oblivion falls!